TARLAC PROVERBS, RIDDLES AND SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS

TARLAC PROVERBS, RIDDLES AND SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS

Tarlac is a landlocked provincein Luzon with Tarlac City as its capital. It is considered as the first melting pot in Central Luzon if not in the entire archipelago.

As such, the province enormously thrives with varieties of cultures, which is why, the culture is predominantly a chemistry of Kapampangan, Ilokano, Pangasinense and Tagalog. The blend is largely due to its history and geographical borderlines.

It is a province colored with merry people and languages. As border languages speakers, the usage of the verbal and written language today may seem not to be as puritan as that of the pioneering settlers, yet, are instinctively spoken by the contemporary Tarlakenos.

Corollary, classical culture vis-à-vis mores, norms, knowledge, customs and traditions are still evident. The following are cultural examples that are germane among the people these days:

Kapampangan Proverbs (Kasebyan)

Eka mamaronga nung eka bisang mituran (Do not cast stone if you do not want to be stroke).

Bawal misukub banwa kareng mikapatad makiasawa bang ali la mipanakwil king suerting dapat karela (It is prohibited among siblings to get marry on the same year so that they will not quarrel over the blessings each one will have).

Nung mag adwa ka lub king kekang pupuntalan, ali naka malalaus bang ing disgrasya a iwasan (If you are having a second thought about your travel, do not proceed any longer to refrain from any possible accident).

Saan nga dapat agkasar ti sikob ti tawen (It is not appropriate to get married on the same year).

Pangasinense Proverbs

Say ason marangol nakmel (Barking dogs seldom bite).

Napepet so sabangan ag natotoban so sangiy tao (Rumors have wings).

No iner so nanlapuan mo diman met so kapelagan mo (The place where you came from is where you will fall).

No say ilog et maungol atapew (Silent water runs deep).

No agka manlastog agka aniatog (If you will not boast you will burst).

Say toon paugip ugip aga makadokdok kayamanen ya napelag(He who always sleeps will never take any even if it rains with gold).

Say abong mo et simento say manaayan et kuago mas gabay kuni abong ya kubo no say manayan et too (It is better to live in a cube house where you will stay with humans than to live in a palace where you will stay with owls).